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The First Widow

Socialite wife. Innocent spouse. Criminal assassin.

Constance learned every secret from her husband.

Now she’s burning his world to the ground.


When Constance’s husband Harry is found dead, she is thrust into the lethal world he ruled: The Seven, a shadow network of international fixers now turning on her. To survive, Constance must outwit the very operation that wants her dead.

What they don’t realise is that she learned everything from Harry – and that Constance has secrets of her own.

But in The Seven, there’s one unbreakable rule: no one gets out alive.

About Denise Mina

Denise Mina is the bestselling author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio, Three Fires and The Second Murderer, a Philip Marlowe novel for the Chandler estate. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice, the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year twice, the Gordon Burn Prize and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. Denise also writes graphic novels and plays, and presents television and radio programmes. She studied law and forensic examination at Glasgow University and taught criminology and criminal law part-time at Strathclyde University. Denise lives and works in Glasgow. The Good Liar is her twentieth novel.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529968613
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Price: £8.99
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